Entrance of the village of Voisins - CamillePissarro - 1872 - Musée d'Orsay - Paris

When he paints this painting, Pissarro is in the period when he reveals himself the most purely impressionist, by the fragmented and flickering technique that would cause a scandal in the first exhibition of the group in 1874. The one who was for Cézanne "something like the good Lord" confessed modestly: "I do not believe in progress in art. In our day, we are more concerned about certain effects that our elders did not look for. "